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Radioactivetyphoonado: Watch As "Once In A Decade Storm" Batters Fukushima
While the broader public's attention continues to be distracted by the circus that America's legislative and executive branches have become (an expected development at a time when the monetary branch reigns supreme), the real, non-scripted and truly devastating catastrophe continue to unfold in Japan, and specifically in Fukushima, where both TEPCO and the government have long since lost control of the worst nuclear disaster in history. However, in addition to the now usual daily spills of hundreds of tons of radioactive coolant into the environment, a potentially far more dangerous situation which may lead to an even greater loss of containment is taking place right now as both the destroyed nuclear plant and soon Tokyo are about to be buffeted by Typhoon Wipha - a "once in a decade storm."
Typhoon Wipha is moving across the Pacific straight towards the capital, Tokyo, and is expected to make landfall during the morning rush hour on Wednesday, bringing hurricane-force winds to the metropolitan area of 30 million people. The center of the storm was 860 km (535 miles) southwest of Tokyo at 0800 GMT, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on its website. It was moving north-northeast at 35 kph (22 mph).
The storm had weakened as it headed north over the sea but was still packing sustained winds of about 140 kph (87 mph) with gusts as high as 194 kph (120 mph), the agency said. The agency issued warnings for Tokyo of heavy rain, flooding and gales, and advised people to be prepared to leave their homes quickly and to avoid unnecessary travel.
A spokesman for the meteorological agency said the storm was a "once in a decade event".
The typhoon is expected to sweep through northern Japan after making landfall and to pass near the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, on the coast 220 km (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo, later on Wednesday.
The operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Corp, which has been struggling to contain radioactive leaks, said it would cancel all offshore work and it would decide whether to continue work onshore after assessing the weather.
The utility will also take down cranes and secure all cables, hoses and machinery, a company spokesman said.
Considering the absolutely abysmal work Tepco had down in "containing" Fukushima, one can probably best describe what is about to take place as a Radioactivetyphoonado.
Sadly, for the long-suffering Japanese people, for whom between Abenomics and this ongoing disaster there is little to smile about, things may be about to get much wrose.
Typhoon Wipha is the strongest storm to approach eastern Japan since October 2004. That cyclone triggered floods and landslides that killed almost 100 people, forced thousands from their homes and caused billions of dollars in damage.
Four Japanese oil refining companies said they suspended marine berth shipments in eastern Japan as the typhoon approached but there was no impact on refining operations.
The affected facilities are Idemitsu Kosan Co's Chiba and Aichi refineries, JX Holdings Inc's Negishi, Kashima and Sendai refineries, Fuji Oil Co's Sodegaura refinery and Cosmo Oil Co's Chiba refinery.
Japan Airlines Co cancelled 183 domestic flights on Tuesday and Wednesday, mostly from Tokyo's Haneda airport. Rival ANA Holdings Inc halted 210 flights in Japan with three international flights also cancelled. The combined cancellations will affect 60,850 passengers, the airlines said.
And yet, the only thing that most will want to know is what happens with Fukushima once the storm flies over it. So for them, and everyone else, we have pulled the folliwng live TEPCO webcam feed showing precisely what is going on at Fukushima (via TEPCO).
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Please do not worry.
Sure hope the nuclear sludge is holding that place together.
Time for management to seppuku themselves.
the problem is storage pool No 4 that is structurally damaged and it contains a complete reactor core that was placed there before the accident for reactor maintenance. If the pool structure fails or the cooling fails, you could have a reactor meltdown on open air. From then on it would be game over for the whole island. My best wishes go to the Japanese people.
All of this Fukushima doom is pure hype. I'm sure everything's just fine.
And not a whisper in the MSM.
We will be able to get constant updates at 1-800- FUK-YU.
Relax... it's not like the #4 reactor building and fuel pool is going blow down right?...although it does look a little shakier than the last time we saw it...
http://leakspinner.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/reactor-4.jpg
Just checking .... this news should be good for 40 or 50 green SPX , right ?
It's been schooped.
the rothschilds bought the weather channel a few years ago
I think they' re gonna need fushi chefs here pretty soon.
http://www.weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/graph/Fukushima+JAXX0010:1:JA
19mph winds forecast max for today.
how do you know the picture is not upsidedown?any way looks like my loundry room
Click on the photo, and open it with windows media. It's a LIVE CAMERA, i am watching it right now. the cooling tower stacks are swaying rather worryingly. 2013-10-15 09:44 (Tepco-time)
Looks nice and calm now, send the VIP tours through!
The EXIF data on that press photo. Can you tell what's been photoshopped.
Look at the light levels on the truck,
The overlap of the arm in relation to the building,
the shadows under the truck.
Note the lack of truck treads in silty soil in a high definition picture.
The picture though is 'current' but nobody has been near it for a looong time.
XMP Toolkit Adobe XMP Core 5.0-c060 61.134777, 2010/02/12-17:32:00 Creator Tool Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows Instance ID xmp.iid:5A8ADF06612911E085878FC3C00CC8E3 Document ID xmp.did:5A8ADF07612911E085878FC3C00CC8E3 Creator © Ho New / Reuters Title JAPAN/ Derived From Instance ID xmp.iid:5A8ADF04612911E085878FC3C00CC8E3 Derived From Document ID xmp.did:5A8ADF05612911E085878FC3C00CC8E3Well, maybe your computer doesn't have that capability to mouse over the photo and LEFT-CLICK IT to open the LIVE CAMERA...
http://www.n24.de/n24/Nachrichten/Politik/d/1246244/die-katastrophe-in-j...
This is from 2011. And it's schooped. If there is a 'video' feed it's a FLV embedded with a gif.
Wi tu Ded
Bring out the happy egg
Too busy working themselves into a frenzy over who is going to play Grey in the upcoming film adaptation.
It's a FUKUSTORM.
Category: Fuku-2
Prognosis: ‘Fuku TEPCO’ by morning
Projected sustained windspeeds as of last night was in the high 90's MPH (perhaps a category one hurricane in the CONUS). The main issue is that this storm is quite large, and therefore, long-lasting. It MIGHT pick up some strength, though...
Kirk: Scotty, Scotty, Scotty. What would I do without you?
Scotty: Why, you'd be going nowhere fast. Sir.
spine...game over for Northern part of Japan and everyone downwind, as in USA and Pacific Northwest. Thyroid cancer is not much fun....
Chartist friend pics....wow
http://chartistfriendfrompittsburgh.blogspot.com/2013/10/have-nuke-and-s...
I don't believe #4 has any fuel in the reactor, the real danger is the spent fuel pool there, which is very full, and if structural failure occurs the pool could drain and expose the spent fuel directly to the environment which would result in massive radioactive output.
the reactor buildings are subsiding into the ground, on top is perched SFPs with tons and tons of spent fuel. what's the problem with a little more rain and wind?
According to NRC internal documents retrieved via FOIA requests, spent fuel pool #4 may have already burned...
http://hatrickpenryunbound.com/?p=3928
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
"You can't spend your whole life worrying about your mistakes! You fucked up. You trusted us."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-glKGjp50Ug
Flounder was such a maroon...
@Depends, yeah, drink iodined water.
"Are you guys playing cards?"
Let's boycott Japan until the Russkies get over there and clean up their mess!!!
Nah, let's send Jeffry Immelt (CEO of GE) over there to clean up THEIR (GE's) mess.
See, even his name works.
the next wave coming; there's going to be some major fall-out.
puns all over this motherfucker
Do you like (radioactive) turtles?
How about Hello Kitty dolls that glow in the dark?
I really am starting to believe that someone forgot to carry a one or two when calculating the end of the Mayan Calendar.
Yea, the world really ended back in 1982.
I thought it was May 21, 2011....at least that is what the billboard says...
thank you tylers for helping us stay informed.
Drink beer, smile, be happy.
Double post
O.K., REALLY not going to buy anymore tuna or sushi now.
I find out where all fish is from before ordering when out. I only do North Atlantic. Cue person who will speak of ocean currents and how the North Atlantic is just as fucked.
Enjoy it while you can, considering the growing dead zone in the north atlantic.
http://prezi.com/0diadtmojiqf/expanding-dead-zones-in-north-atlantic/?utm_source=website&utm_medium=prezi_landing_related_solr&utm_campaign=prezi_landing_related_author
Are you watching them catch it?
What makes you think you are being told the truth?
Any oily leakage?
LOL
Not to piss on your happy parade, but due to ocean surface and subsurface currents the Atlantic Ocean will eventually become contaminated.
Hope you had your umbrella handy!
Pssst.
That sign is made of paper. It might not even be fish!
Godzilla UP!! We got a radioactive reactor to fuck with and 50 million FreeShit Snacks across the Pacific for ya.
Are these Islands jinxed or what..? .....just curious .
When an astroid the size of a VW mini-bus strikes Fukushima then you'll get your answer.
Ring of Fire...put nuke plants close to water for cooling purposes (obviously) no matter where tectonic plate activity might be, so you don't have as many transmisson lines, thus passing the cost-benefit analysis.
Then cross your fingers and hope for the best.
Its the very latest thing in advanced engineering practices & regulatory bodies ;-)
How about that San Onofre thingie, huh?!
Those hundred-year and thousand-year events only happen every 100 or 1,000 years, don't they?
Say, let's run the actuarials on these events to find out if we should build these plants where they are...
Mutual of GEICO says everything looks good, so let's GO FOR IT!
Who's this guy 'Murphy', and what the hell is this 'Law' that everyone keeps talking about? Did he get a degree at MIT or Harvard? Is he an INSURANCE AGENT? Of course not! Don't listen to this 'naysayer'...I AM AUTHORIZED TO ASSURE YOU THAT THERE IS NO, REASONABLE, CAUSE FOR ALARM.
Yeah, I know, the Ruskies had an issue in the 1980's, but that's because they're COMMIES, see...haven't you learned yet?
EDIT:
T.M.I. DID, NOT, OCCUR. It was a Hollywood movie.
Sure, it's the ring of fire, but another nuclear power plant closer to the epicenter survived the Tsunami. Of course, it was on a 90 foot cliff rather than at sea level.
The reactors at Fukushima Daichi are forty year old boiling water designs. There is nothing advanced about that. The reactors shut down properly after an earthquake stronger than they were designed for, but the power plant was not prepared for a Tsunami. Fukushima was designed badly. The diesel back up generators were in a basement where they could be flooded. The meltdown resulted from a lack of electricity to run the cooling pumps
Fukushima Daichi should have been replaced 15 years ago with a safer design, at a safer location. But that is the problem with regulated monopolies like TEPco. They have no honest insurance agencies which force them to avoid risk. They are crony capitalists.
Yes, that was my point.
Tsunami's (tidal waves) never EVER follow an eathquake, so its perfectly fine to put emergency power sources at or below sea level...lol.
To our larger point, no one ever goes back and looks at these old plants. Society needs power sure, but they need it done safely. I'm still trying to figure out (with transmission lines strung from one end of every nation to the other) why they would need on-site generators at all.
You could just backfeed to the one thats down from another plant or (if we can't get away from emergency generators) cut into the lines going into them with generators the size of tractor trailers...off site.
The lines were all still in place from what I understand.
@EscapeKey:
Hard one to calculate. They both SUCK, you know.
Could things get any more Fucked up?
I'll phone Kim Jong Fat and see if he can launch an assault on the South.....CUE IRAN/ISRAEL.
Throw in a 7.9 then we got something to talk about....
Best I can do is a 7.2
http://news.sky.com/story/1154623/philippines-earthquake-at-least-93-dead
May I send you a bill for the cracks in my house?
oh very yes...
well, just HOW closely is the Japan economy tied to the US economy?
I didn't see the 'sarc' tag in your question. What brand of automobile usurped the G,M. brands for sales in the United States? (HINT: The name was changed after WWII. The original company built sewing machines, using the family name TOYODA. They went in to the automobile business using the discarded General Motors vehicles in the South Pacific as a guide, reverse-engineering the powerplants. The Early 'Land Cruiser' motors of the 1960's were almost EXACT copies of the 235 CID Chevrolet motor, with the exception of the fact that all measurements and specifications were METRIC))
To the Bunker!
Lets see...Gulf coast oil sludge. Pacific glowing fish. Opposite sides of the globe. Fry it or nuked fish Our children will wonder what we did to them for generations. Oh, and zero capital and technology to fix the problems.
Could be worse, it could be...
Oh...
I think, radioactive shitstorm is much more better term.
So... "advised people to be prepared to leave their homes quickly and to avoid unnecessary travel." Which one??
Both, thanks to the word "unnecessary."
I'd have written "Be prepared to leave your homes... not a lot, just a little bit."
Now that we have Yellen, you can have Bernanke to do God's work.
Morlocks...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5efS_zJbsQ
or maybe the Whore of Babylon ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ97wzMOOS0
So what your telling me is now we can have a sequal with Radioactive SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With frikkin gamma beams shooting from atop their heads!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing a lttle egg with wings can't fix. fuk E you... Fukushima.
So its officially the worst nuke disaster now? most knew that when we watched the vids of the roofs blow off those buildings.
Where is that ident777 douchbag to add his constructive opinion to the fold?
I realize that 87 mph winds are very strong, but Radioactivetyphoonado, and one in a decade storm, give me a braek.
It's all blowing your way. Mine too.
ident777 is that you?
A break? nope, but 100's of extra tons of highly radio active water we'll all get
edit++ fukyu blowing up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE2eTebInJ8
"one in a decade storm"
That was stated by a Japanese government employee, and their tendancy is to understate severity in all cases.
@PRO.223:
Check you out, punk!
FOUR nuclear plants hit with a 9.0 earthquake, a 40' tsunami, three of them literally blowing up, trillions of bequerels of all types of radiation escaping, storage tanks leaking, ground under them like mud, R.4 SINKING into the mud, desparate attempts to START pulling out FUEL RODS (THOUSANDS of them), and NOW, a frigging TYPHOON hitting the place, due to cause even MORE damage to the entire EARTH, and YOU 'want a break'.
Since YOU 'realize that 87 MPH winds are very strong', I suggest that YOU go over there and give the FUKUSHIMA 50 a BREAK, and take their place. YOU seem to be able to 'handle it'.
PUNK.
FUKUPPY to the rescue!!!
U stole my words
FUKUPPY stole my adulthood.
Cool, pixels changing colour randomly. Great viewing ;)
The color changing pixels are much more coordinated here : http://logicenginedesigns.com
Try updating your internet connection. I hear that dial-up IS rather slow...
Must watch. When people realize this :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
Kaboom.
That's fucked up......
Thats what I'm talking about when i say the rich are too rich. I ain't talkin' bout millionaires.
I agree. Must-watch. Very, very sobering if accurate. And even if off by an order of magnitude.
Very interesting indeed! What Americans should realize is that there is very, very little support left in the world for the American "model". It will go the Soviet path and the sooner the better.
You know, seeing Godzilla storm out of the ocean at Fukushima would actually be anticlimactic at this point.
Yeah but put a bit in his mouth and have our favorite chinese citizen shitizenism, wearing a Charlie Chan suit, riding on him bareback, holding a parasol over his head...now there's something to really write home about!
Thats just damned good theater right there! ;-)
"Dilution is the solution to pollution". How many curies of mixed waste could you dump into the ocean and still be below the limit of detection by six orders or magnitude? Nature is doing them a favor, in the same way she tried to clean up New York and New Orleans. Only here in the US it was stale piss smell instead of cesium, strontium, ruthenium, et. al.
Kate Blanchett voiceover: . . . and some things which should have been kept buried were scattered across the land.
I still can't believe the Olympics are being held over there in 2020. Between a nuclear wasteland and debt-to-GDP exceeding well over 200%... yeah.
They won't even have enough money to build all the infrastructure necessary for the 2020 olympics... if Fukushima doesn't go supernovae before then. There's two things that could awfully wrong before 2020 and bring down Japan... and chances are that it will.
Whoever voted for Tokyo to be the Olympics site in 2020 probably doesn't read the news a whole lot and thinks that Japan is an economic powerhouse and that Fukushima was solved long ago.
The Olympics are about product placement and Nation State one up man-ship.
You got Putin doing his own personalized remake of Berlin '36.
Brazil got both nuts rubbed with World Cup and Olympics. But they have a national riot over a bus fare hike. That will be an orderly mess.
Everyone thinks they have to Out Do the Chinese.
If everything goes to hell in a hand basket all of these international events will be seeking refugee status in Los Angeles for a long time to come.
If everything goes to hell in a hand basket, Los Angeles will become Los Demons.
What do you mean, "IF", or "WILL"?
Instead of Hello Kitty, it's Bye Bye Caroline.
@Surging Chaos:
For further imnformation regarding the 2020 Olympics, visit WB7's blog (a contributor in good standing here). There is a new event being prepared, called 'the TEPCO Tank Jump'.
http://williambanzai7.blogspot.com/2013/09/tank-jump.html
GOD IS EXECUTING
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Bullish for Japan's economy! All those broken windows! Krugman to the rescue!
What a PIG FUCK!!
Things just keep getting better.
Go Japan Go!!!
Yeah, but what about the US political theatre? That's so much more important and stuff. Why can't Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell just get it together and save us from certain doom!!! (of making our currency slightly more worthless than it is presently) Just. Stay. Focused.
Goodbye cruel world..........
Typhoon dumps ten inchs of rain upland, you get a sizable storm surge seaside.....no breaks in fukushima
Major aquifer running underneath the reactor facility. Already spewing contaminated water to the surface. Major rain in the aquifer recharge zone. Even without wind damage or surface flooding the next few weeks will see a major increase in water volume in the aquifer.
The Oregononian, Oct. 15, 2013: [...] a fascinating, troubling mystery: the disappearance of the sardine in waters around British Columbia. The Vancouver Sun fills in the details on the collapsed $32-million commercial fishery this year on the B.C. coast. The consequences of the loss of the tiny fish [...] could be dire.
http://enenews.com/troubling-mystery-sardine-population-inexplicably-and...
A breakdown in the food chain spells disaster of the highest magnitude.
ok, hadnt really looked at it that way yet.
where is the guy that was doing a bunch of research on this that was posting here? had a pretty sizable write up on it.
ok, that was jim in mn. and he was all over this yesterday in another thread.
i decide to look a little farther up the coast. deadliest catch, to see whats goin on with the crabs.
cant really tell yet. government shutdown has them docked.
http://www.komonews.com/news/business/Shutdown-Slowly-Killing-Deadliest-...
interesting comment from the above link.
ObsidianOne 14 hours ago Our government has put a stoppage on all income coming in, which our country needs. Putting people to work on these boats and keeping parks open that people pay for generate what? REVENUE.
Tomorrow, watch CSPAN. The government department heads are going to be grilled in DC about WHO told them to close monuments. It WILL be interesting, especially if they plead the 5th and IF someone DOES talk, the trail will lead to Obama or one of his right hand people. This should be some of the best television this week.....
Turn the ground into soup
Maybe Mr Miagi could come out of retirement and give that old typhoon a good roundhouse kick?
Perhaps Chuck Norris could form a tag team with him and eat the spent nuclear rods?
I'll bet that TEPCO has already made both of these phone calls so we should be fine.
This can't be good. Pretty soon, someone on board the ISS will ask why the Western Pacific is glowing at night, and the cat will be out of the bag. Nine months later, children born in Vancouver will have webbed feet and twelve fingers. A year later, someone will be attacked by a sharkadile in an Oregon Walmart parking lot, and it will all be over.
Would that actually be news in Vancouver?
over?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vtWB4owdE
whats it going to do, cuddle me to death?
http://ikovu.deviantart.com/art/Hybrisharks-Sharkadile-Concept-395742898
When a FukuStorm hits the FukuCongress, the FukuShitsu will hit the FukuFan.
nothing like a radioactiveacolypse to take you mind of the impending economiacolypse...
hahaha FUKUPUPPY VS Godzilla!
It is going to rain three-eyed sharks.
How is Terry the Tuna doing?
Nuclear karma's a bitch.
wouldn't this be appropriate. the world ends because a natural event unleashes a manmade calamity that takes out an entire ocean and everyone living around it....just when the .1% are ready to end the whole thing on their own.
Maybe. Records show a massive spike in radioactivity levels in the North Pacific coincident with the Sendai earthquake and BEFORE Fukushima Daiichi exploded. Who's missing a sub?
"Records show a massive spike in radioactivity levels"
Link?
US EPA Link: Look around March 2nd to 7th... Japan is one day ahead of San Francisco, so that corresponds to March 3rd to 8th.
Earthquake was: 11 March 2011, 14:46:23 JST (UTC+09:00)
So the japs just don't give a fuck(uppy)
This is not likely to cause any raidiation to enter the ocean or into the groundwater.
The government will protect you.
I clicked on the link with my Linux pc and it asked me where I wanted to save the asx file to.
Duh.
I couldn't link either, so I dusted off my trusty Hewlett-Packard 8088, loaded a floppy disc in, and now the screen is all blue and shit! What's this 'MOUSE' thing? WHERE do I plug it in?
I've never tried LINUX, but there is probably some option to 'find a program on line to open' thingie. I guess the reason why I never tried LINUX is that the name reminds me of 'LINUS', one of the characters in the 'Charlie Brown' animated cartoons.
Did anyone ever tell you that your 'avatar' looks like an arial shot of a TOILET?
Just wondering...
The rain seems to have let up a little, but the wind is still going.
It is a China created storm according to Japans PM
(Gotta blame someone, works for Obama)
I didn't know that China has Bushes over there!
Just what is needed - cooling wind and rain
I hope reactor building no. 4 is hanging in there. Those exterior walls don't need to be taking any wind loads.
after that its the perfect place for Special Olimpics...
Deal is, TEPCO let this get away from them very early on. Now, with 3 cores going down the "China Syndrome" hole, there is no, zilch, zero way to "fix" this problem. And the fuel rods still above ground will probably be almost impossible to remove to safety without the material going critical.
My prediction? 50 years from now life may survive in the extreme S. Hemisphere but in an altered state. Maybe not, and maybe sooner than 50 years, depending on the damage the melted cores cause when they sink down to mantle.
Well, I hate to correct you, but 'TEPCO' didn't let this 'get away from them' (so to speak).
There were things like the Japanese DIET (occupied government) going along with the proposals to actually BUILD these plants, which started in the late 1950's/early 1960's, as I recall. HELL, we even ran ads in the periodicals, bragging about the SHAH of IRAN going along with the BWR Mk. I reactors, and building them in IRAN in the mid-70's! Look where THAT got us...
TEPCO FOLLOWED ALL THE RULES AND REGULATIONS, right down to the 'backup power generators' that failed...
WHO wrote these SPECS? Any GUESSES?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5KEu5WvdnE
I suppose you ae pissing and moaning about the surveillance state as well. HERE, watch THIS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd63MHGQygQ
YEAH, go ahead and blame TEPCO. It was THEM, not US.
There. Feel better now?
I think I just saw Fukuppy flying over that damned place!
dont shot Fukuppys..
WOW!
GREAT spelling here!
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